Perirectal compartment

Our option Outer connective tissue lamella of the rectal adventitia, bordering the perirectal compartment... 

What is situated outside the rectal fascia and therefore outside the perirectal subcompartment Dorsally, the presacral subcompartment is loosely attached to the perirectal compartment (see above). Laterally the supplying structures (autonomic nerves and branches of the iliac vessels) of the urogenital organs constitute a nerve-vessel plate (Fig. 1.3c). The latter is accompanied by connective tissue and fills the remaining space between the perirectal compartment... 

The ventral border of the perirectal compartment represents the border between posterior and middle compartment. It differs in a craniocaudal direction, i. e. to the peritoneum of the recto-uterine pouch at a level with the cervix uteri and the fornix vaginae and to the posterior wall of the vagina more caudally. As we have recently shown [ 1,24,36] a two layered recto-... 

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